
<h2>Internationalisation</h2>

<p>
	Localisation of the presentation layer is important for any software
	package, and I aim to make this normally arduous task as easy as
	possible in DataTables. To this end, a number of contributors have
	kindly translated the language strings used is DataTables into various
	different languages. If you translate DataTables into any other
	languages, please <a href="/contact">let me know</a> and I'll happily
	include the translation here.
</p>

<ul>
	<li><a href="#how_to">How to use DataTables internalisation
			options</a></li>
	<li><a href="#functions">Translations</a></li>
</ul>


<a name="how_to"></a>
<h3>How to use DataTables internalisation options</h3>

<p>
	There are two methods by which you can include internalisation options
	in DataTables - loading the language file through an Ajax request, or
	at initialisation time using the <a href="/usage/i18n">oLanguage</a>
	property. The following example shows how to include the <a
		href="#German">German translation</a> as an Ajax file (<a
		href="/examples/advanced_init/language_file.html">live example</a> - a
	<a href="/examples/basic_init/language.html">live example</a> for
	oLanguage control is also available):
</p>

<pre class="brush: html">&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.dataTables.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
	$(document).ready(function() {
		$('#example').dataTable( {
			"oLanguage": {
				"sUrl": "dataTables.german.txt"
			}
		} );
	} );
&lt;/script&gt;
</pre>


<a name="functions"></a>
<h3>Translations</h3>

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